Welcome to the Master of Succession Collective. This name is inspired by the “Master Composter” certification which we thought was funny. So why not be masters of the succession of air, water, soil and selves. We aim to redesign systems and products to have beneficial by-products. Connect your world to ours: — contact us — […]
January 2025 Remembering ancestral land use
Hello! Hello viewers. Want to collaborate or share your ideas & work. Maybe get assistance, maybe overlap or weave into the regenerative lifestyle landscape. We love collaborations with like minded citizens. Contact us to let us know you’re out there. “Who do you want to be in the place you want to see.” Thud is […]
The sign says, “Don’t Touch, fragile below. Mussels wintering below the freeze line. To be removed in Spring 2025 Estuary Educational Project The MoS Collective participants are occasionally joining me in a controlled stumbling forward, I’m following through with all the unexpected cascades from an idea that created serendipitous cascades. in an effort to catch up to […]
Sharing my latest Chat GPT list of plants that will take up toxins in the soil. Chat GPT List: In addition to sunflowers, several other plants are effective at phytoremediation, the process by which plants absorb, accumulate, or stabilize heavy metals and other contaminants from the soil. Here are some common and effective phytoremediating plants: […]
FBS ‘24 Day 14: First rain. The mycelium is still white. I’m hoping to see mushrooms. That would be great. These blue oyster blocks have already flushed twice. They could fruit this fall, said Anne Apparu-Hall. Today, rethinking my mussel cage but mostly just moving the “Banquet for the Estuary” inside the MoS MoBS LoBS Lab – […]
Mixed the twice flushed blue oyster fungi block with the fleece from Ashokan Center goats.really the thickest yet. Maybe too big for this sculpture. I imagined a bit less diameter and longer. Maybe I’ve in the water will be ok. It’s very heavy.Still to do the other one. That was both bags of fleece. It will […]
Last night Some of Simin’s memorial flowers were added to the tail. My our dear community garden friend, caretaker of the herb spiral, host of the Zoroaster fire jumping every yr., a wonderful mom and daughter & partner to Eric. What better place to move her flowers — the sacred animated sculpture that supports what she might like to see in […]
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Oyster fungi blocks. If you missed the launch you can view the installation while intact or as it spreads, grows and decays. Watch it in the river going up & down with the tide. These are oyster mushroom blocks from Anne Apparu-Hall & Ted. They sell mushrooms at farm markets. Permaculture, New Museum, Two Row, […]
THE GREAT BENEFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE ESOPUS SEAL SCULPTURE FBS: FLOATING BIOREMEDIATING SCULPTURE 2024 Thursday Sept. 12th, 2024 5 – 7:30 pm The Arm of The Sea’s Tidewater Center 61 E. Bridge St. Saugerties, NY The Launch of the Esopus Seal & Beneficial Banquet for the Estuary. FBS: A Floating Bioremediating Sculpture. By Dee Dee […]
Went to Ellenville to see friend’s picked up two new blue oyster blocks and she threw in from the old pile out back 6 blocks. Oyster mushrooms are great bio-remediators. The two new ones will fruit by Wednesday for the launch. The others will go into the myco hair booms and on the raft.
You’re invited! The Great Launch of the Floating Bioremediating Sculpture: a banquet for the Esopus by Dee Dee Maucher living Lifestyles of Bioremediation & Symbiosis. Artist in Residence at The Tidewater Center. 3 consecutive evenings 5-730pm at Arm of The Sea’s Tidewater Center 61 E. bridge St Saugerties, NY 1. Tuesday 9/10 cohosted by The […]
Hi Lily-Ann, Re: “This video of kids throwing. So fun.” “Great initiative! But who follows up on the results?” No we don’t test. Other entities are testing around the island unrelated to this event. “Are there already positive results or is it a drop in the ocean that changes nothing?“ Yes, It does change something. […]
Another Floating Bioremediating Sculpture: a microbial feast of exponential abundance. Three consecutive evenings September 10 – Permaculture Meet up 5-730pm: Micro & Phyto remediation September 11 – Wandering Wednesday Pot Luck 5-7:30pm, Myco remediation. September 12 – Opening & Installation festivities, doodling the future. The Floating Bioremediating Sculpture A Microbial Banquet for the Estuary At The Arm of The Sea’s […]
2024: MoS Collective as Artist in Residence at the Arm of the Sea’s new Tidewater Center :a home for their puppet performances, arts, culture, wellness. The funding is on-going. It’s in Saugerties on the Lower Esopus, an Arm of the Hudson River. The MoS LoBS Lab is growing in the former Arm of the Sea […]
Accumulating, growing building resource networks in the realm of Living LoBS. (lifestyles of bioremediation & Symbiosis). Saturday Productive Circuit; First stop Recycling: I picked up egg cartons at recycling – 4, though I need 6 matching for Ann Lee’s Super Balls. Later I gave them as a gift to Kathy’s husband Ed, who happily said, “Yes, we […]
July-Sept 2024 Saugerties, NY in the Hudson Valley July-Sept 2024 MoS Collective is at Arm of the Sea’s (armofthesea.org) Tidewater Center expanding our Lifestyles of Bioremediation & Symbiosis (LivingLoBS). Please Connect with us just to connect and say hi or collaborate: message here. That’s the whole point …. we are growing a very robust local network of likemindeds so this […]
Urban Soil Institute Residency Continued Summer 2023 Bioremediation experiment Apply to join us as the Science Partner! Testing the efficacy of the sculpture ingredients. It is the continuation of Last summer ‘s proposal for a residency at Urban Soil Institute (USI) which shares space in the SWALE house on Governors Island, New York City, a few MoS […]
May 14, 202: The Ecological City Pageant. Rain Sun May 15. MoS Floating Bioremediation Sculpture launch after a full day celebration of climate solutions with a wide variety of artists. Lower East Side NYC East River Park at 6th St and the river at 4:30 pm. We are living lifestyles of beneficial succession while harvesting resources […]
October 2nd, 2021 The 8th MudBall Ball A part of LUNGS NYC Harvest Arts Festival 2-7 pm El Jardin Del Paraiso. Between 4th & 5th streets & Ave C & D 10 E 5th St, New York, NY 10009 The Masters of Succession Collective presents the culmination of a week of individual offerings to the community called The Plaza […]
The Participants of Beneficial Succession present The Plaza of The Wind Offerings 2021. Celebrating the fall harvest of the plaza fig tree & out artistic processes. A Harvest Week: We have invited neighbors to share what they love to do with you. We have kids, wellness, performance, workshops, dance and play. Detailed schedule below. 2021 9/25 to 10/1 join us OUTSIDE of Grace Performance […]
The Plaza of the Wind Offerings May June 2021 Hellooo ! Announcing MoS Collective joins Grace Exhibition Space to activate the outside plaza for Covid safe activities, engagements. From mid May & mid June. The Lower East Side will be explosive with outdoor life this Spring and Summer. The indoor arts scene will be outside MoS Collective art supporting regenerative ecosystem […]
February 10, 2021 join our zoom! Earthcelebrations.com Ecological City Pageant presentations. MoS Collective’s DD Maucher will announce the concept for this year’s FBS! Join the FBS movement! Contact us! Sign up on Eventbrite to receive Zoom link RSVP – Free – Limited Tkts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecological-city-art-climate-solutions-zoom-planning-meeting-tickets-135712699337 A brief retrospective Floating Bioremediating Sculptures (FBS) in the past three […]
Be a snow angel and join us with a contribution to regenerative lifestyles in public soace programming! We can meet now on a great 2d platform. A global community moving toward beneficial succession — cascading betterment where possible. GiVE HERE & Project Details: https://ioby.org/project/plaza-wind-offerings We started 10years ago as MôS Collective. We aim to be closed loop […]
This etched photograph is from college pin hole camera assignment. : i made a three hole pin hole camera. It took sheets of kodalith film. I painted the box blue and called it “The Big Blue Clodhopper with the Despotic Swagger”. I carried this clodhopper around. I placed it down, as I waited as it didn’t captured […]
The Ephemeral Piazza, EP, is a pubic space that grows through living relationships after which it is the needs that grow the spaces & places. The EP can be anywhere and is everywhere and can be somewhere. It is your fantastical place but it is not a dream, it’s real. It’s a place to BE […]
Weekly mixers. Jan – March, 2021 Thursday 6-8pm Contact here to join us. 25 Max participants. Add to the piazza, stroll around to see what MoS Collective participants have added. Share something. Go with buddy to discover beneficial succession experiences. It’s on Gather.
Hi!! Plaza Update! Testing has starting. Playing with friends is more like it. I can’t wait for the custom map because that has turned to be more of a learning curve. Defiantly more investment is needed. If you want to be a tester with us let me know. Artists will love this. Several of the MoS and EVWC crew met late night […]
I came across a station called FNX First Nations Experience: channel 14-1 — so great. I urge people to listen to this non extractive indigenous culture. With Standing Rock millions more people began to raise indigenous voices. That number has exponentially grown. We’re expanding social compassion through sharing personal stories, good & bad, often offering other ways toward beneficial succession. It’s an uncovering of […]
Huge thank you for participating & for photos & video. Dee Dee Maucher, Teresa & Sparrow Byrnes, Vivian Campbell, Harry B Lichtenstein, Wendy Henry, Acupuncture & everyone else who joined in the celebration.